Moscow Church and Cemetery

Moscow lived off the Camden to Washington road. Hempstead County residents petitioned for it in 1821, and overseers worked sections around 1828; farmers used it to reach the Ouachita River, the nearest navigable water. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says some Choctaw people may have traveled it during removal in the 1830s, and Confederate troops likely used it in 1864. The railroad shifted the county's weight to Prescott, which won the county seat by vote on May 19, 1877. A stretch of the old road, unimproved sand, gravel and dirt, joined the National Register in 2009.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site — 15 mi
  The two-story Hervey Street house in Hope where Bill Clinton lived his first four years with his widowed mother and her parents, now a National Park Service site with a ranger-led tour.
• White Oak Lake State Park — 17 mi
  A 725-acre park on the lower of two 1961 lakes, where white sand marks an ancient shoreline and the visitor center carries a Poison Spring display eight miles from the battlefield.
• Historic Washington State Park — 18 mi
  A Southwest Trail town that was Arkansas's Confederate capital from 1863 to 1865, then lost the railroad and kept its buildings, with a blacksmith shop and the 1836 courthouse.
• Poison Spring Battleground State Park — 23 mi
  An 85-acre roadside battlefield west of Camden, where Confederates routed a Union foraging column on April 18, 1864, and many Black soldiers of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry were killed after surrendering.

More markers nearby

• Action at Moscow — steps away
• Skirmishes at Prairie D'Ane — 4.2 mi
• Fighting at Elkins' Ferry — 16 mi
• Skirmishes at Okolona — 16 mi